Shamanic Teachings of the Condor

Encounters with the Mystical Traditions of the Andes

Martha Winona Travers

• Publisher: Bear & Company
• eBook ISBN:
  9781591435075
• Year: 2024

• Presents the teachings of revered Ecuadorian Kichwa elder Taita Alberto Taxo as vivid, experiential journeys

• Details how to return to intimacy with Nature and the natural world through communicating with the elements

• Shares Andean shamanic practices and ceremonies for opening the heart, expanding consciousness, and shamanic journeying

In this deep dive into South American shamanism, Martha Winona Travers shares the teachings and practices she learned during her 22 years as an apprentice to revered Ecuadorian Kichwa elder, Taita Alberto Taxo.

Presenting Taita Alberto’s teachings as vivid, experiential journeys, Travers allows you to immerse yourself in his direct, heart-centered wisdom as if you, too, were one of his shamanic apprentices. You will learn the ancient mystical traditions of the Andes, traditions saved by the elders specifically for these times. These traditions of healing invite human beings to return to intimacy with Nature and the natural world through initiating conversations with the elements, including the fifth, spiritual element, the Ushai. You will learn about the delicate dance of the Eagle (the mind) and the Condor (the heart), including how to reestablish the path of the heart to help bring the overactive mind into balance, the key to embarking on powerful shamanic journeys. You will visit sacred waterfalls, travel high up the active volcano Cotopaxi to a mountain lake for ceremony, experience the sounds carried on the wind in the mountains, see the Condor flying, and sit at night around the fire, listening to stories and laughter.

As you journey together with Taita Alberto, you will begin to sense the fifth element Ushai being activated as the potent energy of spiritual transformation awakens within you. By experiencing Taita Alberto’s profound mystical realizations through shamanic transmission, you will learn to express gratitude with each of the elements, leave behind those burdens you no longer need to carry, and discover how to fly higher in life.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright & Permission
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword: By Julia Plevin Oliansky
• Acknowledgments
• Preface: Welcome To The Iachak Fire
• Introduction: Becoming A Iachak’s Apprentice
• Part One: The Eagle Visits The Condor
• Part Two: Becoming A Runa: Purification And Sacred Communion
• Part Three: The Condor Visits The Eagle
• Epilogue
• Glossary of Kichwa Terms
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author
• Books of Related Interest
• About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
• Backcover